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Goldman Sachs envisions cloud computing infrastructure so commoditized it trades like pork bellies

"Goldman's grand vision for the cloud is a day when computing infrastructure becomes so commoditized that it can be traded frictionlessly on an open market, like barrels of oil or pork bellies."

New York City:   Tue, 11/18/14 - 8:08pm    View comments
 

Don DuetGoldman SachsAccording to Don Duet, the Managing Director of Cloud Strategy for Goldman Sachs, about ⅓ of its 33,000 employees are engineers building software for a compute farm of over 300,000 cores that run Monte Carlo Simulations.
 

But what really caught my attention was his following statement:
 

"Goldman's grand vision for the cloud is a day when computing infrastructure becomes so commoditized that it can be traded frictionlessly on an open market, like barrels of oil or pork bellies."
 

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